"Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series) Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK. In the U.S., the series began airing on select PBS stations in the spring of 2009. A third series began airing in the UK on 10 January 2010. The fourth and final series began on 9 January 2011 on BBC One and BBC One HD, and"
"to existing cornfields and farm buildings, and Park Farm in Neston Park was chosen for its unspoilt character and attractive traditional buildings. The outdoor filming at these locations for the first series took 25 days, spread over a 5-month period. The country scenes, including all the comings and goings of the lord of the manor, were shot at Chavenage House north of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. It was announced on 22 January 2011 that the show would not be returning for a fifth series. The decision caused viewer complaints, prompting BBC One controller Danny Cohen to say, """"Lark Rise to Candleford"" has"
"and is buried at Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth, Devon. Flora Thompson Flora Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". Thompson was born Flora Jane Timms in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire, the eldest child of Albert and Emma Timms, a stonemason and nursemaid respectively. Albert and Emma had twelve children, but only six survived childhood. The young Flora's early education was at the parish school in the village of Cottisford where she was described as 'altogether her father's child'. In"
"Flora Thompson Flora Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". Thompson was born Flora Jane Timms in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire, the eldest child of Albert and Emma Timms, a stonemason and nursemaid respectively. Albert and Emma had twelve children, but only six survived childhood. The young Flora's early education was at the parish school in the village of Cottisford where she was described as 'altogether her father's child'. In 1891, at the age of 14, Flora moved"
"Thompson lived in Above Town between 1928 and 1940, writing ""Lark Rise"" and ""Over to Candleford"" during this time. The books were later combined into a single volume with ""Candleford Green"" and published as ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". She is buried at Longcross Cemetery. The stage and film actress Rachel Kempson (1910–2003) was born in Dartmouth. She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, ""Life Among the Redgraves"", in 1988. Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College. Sir John Harvey Jones (1924-2008),"
"In 1945 the books were republished as a trilogy under the title ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". The trilogy is a lightly disguised story of the author's own youth, describing life in a hamlet, a village, and a country town in the 1880s. Two of Thompson's later lesser-known works were published posthumously: ""Heatherley"", recounting her time in the post office at Grayshott at the turn of the 20th century when several of her lifelong interests took shape, the longing for education and culture and the desire to become a writer; and her last book ""Still Glides the Stream"". H. J. Massingham"
"BBC drama series ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". Other notable roles include Mabel Nesbitt in Robert Altman's Oscar-winning ""Gosford Park"" and Charlotte Lucas in Joe Wright's 2005 version of ""Pride and Prejudice"". In the autumn of 2007, she was seen in the BBC serial ""Cranford"" as Martha. In 2010, Blakley played the role of Cynthia Lennon in the BBC television production of ""Lennon Naked"", a drama based on the period in the life of John Lennon from the years 1964 to 1971. In 2013 she appeared in the premiere of the play ""Chimerica"". Claudie Blakley Claudia Blakley (born 1974) is an"
"she did not seek to have it published. It appeared posthumously, in 1979. The television scriptwriter and playwright Keith Dewhurst adapted Thompson's trilogy into two plays, ""Lark Rise"" and ""Candleford"", which were performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of London's National Theatre in 1978–9. Dewhurst's concept was to reflect the familiarity, one for another, of the village inhabitants by staging the plays as a promenade, with the theatre seats removed and the actors, musicians and audience intermingling. The books describe village life through the seasons of the year, but for the plays Dewhurst selected just two days: the first day of"
"was filmed during August 2010. It was announced on 22 January 2011 that the show would not be returning for a fifth series. The final series concluded on 13 February 2011. The series is set in the small Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town of Candleford towards the end of the 19th century. The series chronicles the daily lives of farm workers, craftsmen, and gentry, observing the characters in loving, boisterous, and competing communities of families, rivals, friends, and neighbours. The story is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, Laura Timmins (Olivia Hallinan),"
"Olivia Hallinan Olivia Hallinan (born 20 January 1985) is an English actress best known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" and also as Kim in the Channel 4 drama ""Sugar Rush."" She also starred as Ellie in ""Girls in Love"". Hallinan is from Twickenham, west London, and is the second youngest of four sisters, including Clemency Hallinan of ""The Inbetweeners"" and ""The X Factor"" fame. Olivia Hallinan began training at her mother's Saturday drama school ""All Expressions"" in Teddington when she was 11, and then went on to professional acting. After"
"In the late 1990s, the estate obtained a Countryside Stewardship Scheme agreement from the government, supporting a programme of hedge, wall and wild flower field margin restoration. The farm shop and coffee shop were established in Atworth in 2006. In 2013 a Bath Stone mine, called Park Lane Quarry and first worked in 1880, was reopened on the estate. The estate has been used as the filming location of a number of productions, including the outdoor sets for the 2008 BBC television adaptation of ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", and some scenes of the ITV series ""Persuasion"". Unlike the neighbouring estate"
"episode of BBC Radio 4's ""Kaleidoscope"" programme and explained how hard it was to play her signature piece ""The Lark Ascending"" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, she said that the lark song during long walks on nearby 'Marleycombe Down' was a central tenet of her performance. Andy Barter photographer was born and lived at Woodminton farm, Bowerchalke 1967. The village was the location for the fire in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film ""Barry Lyndon"" based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ""The Luck of Barry Lyndon"" at . The village school closed in 1976 and children from Bowerchalke now attend the school in"
"Matilda Ziegler Matilda Ziegler (born 23 July 1964) is an English television, stage and film actress best known for her roles as Pearl Pratt in ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", Irma Gobb in ""Mr. Bean"" (Mr. Bean's girlfriend), and as Donna Ludlow in the long-running BBC1 serial ""EastEnders"", and Ruth in the BBC Three sitcom ""Swiss Toni"". Ziegler's first screen role remains her best known. In her early twenties, during 1987–89, she appeared on ""EastEnders"", playing the scheming Donna Ludlow, the illegitimate daughter of series regular Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth). After trying to reunite with her mother and being immediately rejected"
"Matilda Ziegler Matilda Ziegler (born 23 July 1964) is an English television, stage and film actress best known for her roles as Pearl Pratt in ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", Irma Gobb in ""Mr. Bean"" (Mr. Bean's girlfriend), and as Donna Ludlow in the long-running BBC1 serial ""EastEnders"", and Ruth in the BBC Three sitcom ""Swiss Toni"". Ziegler's first screen role remains her best known. In her early twenties, during 1987–89, she appeared on ""EastEnders"", playing the scheming Donna Ludlow, the illegitimate daughter of series regular Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth). After trying to reunite with her mother and being immediately rejected"
"in London. On 30 March 2014, it was announced that Bentall would be playing Ross Poldark's cousin Verity in the new BBC One version of ""Poldark"", broadcast in 2015. Bentall made a guest appearance in ""Holby City"" in July 2018. Ruby Bentall Ruby Bentall (born 3 April 1988) is an English actress, known for playing Minnie in ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", Mary Bennet in ""Lost in Austen"", and Verity Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's ""Poldark"" novels. Bentall was born at home in Camden, London. She is the daughter of actors Janine Duvitski and Paul Bentall. The"
"Rise in her ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" trilogy. Juniper Hill Juniper Hill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Cottisford in Oxfordshire. Juniper Hill is just over south of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire. Juniper Hill was named after the common juniper, ""Juniperus communis"", which originally grew in the area. In 1754 there were only two cottages in the area. However, on the 1841 census there are 16 households in the village, and by 1901 there were 25 households in the village. The local inn, established about 1860, was known as the 'Fox'. Flora Thompson was born in Juniper Hill"
"series 3 finale explains that the 'Gene Hunt world' is in fact a purgatory for police officers with the Railway Arms pub acting as a 'gateway' to heaven. Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) DI Alexandra ""Alex"" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, ""Ashes to Ashes"". The character is portrayed by Keeley Hawes and as a child by Lucy Cole. The character of Alex Drake is the main protagonist of ""Ashes to Ashes"", the sequel to the 2006 series ""Life on Mars"", which followed the story of Sam Tyler (John Simm) who wakes in 1973"
"Ruby Bentall Ruby Bentall (born 3 April 1988) is an English actress, known for playing Minnie in ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", Mary Bennet in ""Lost in Austen"", and Verity Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's ""Poldark"" novels. Bentall was born at home in Camden, London. She is the daughter of actors Janine Duvitski and Paul Bentall. The family moved to Petersham outside Richmond when Bentall was eight. She attended Grey Court School and went to Richmond upon Thames College between 2004 and 2006, graduating with a BTEC National Diploma in Performance. Bentall has three siblings, and two"
"Ends of the Earth"" alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Jared Harris. The production, an adaptation of the novels of the same name by William Golding, featured various self-absorbed characters who are forced to remain in close quarters while sailing on a ship to Australia during the Napoleonic Wars. Hamilton described the production as having ""some of the most beautiful scripts I've seen"", and called her character Miss Granham ""one of the strongest people on the boat"". From 2008 to 2011, Hamilton appeared in the BBC1 series ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" as Ruby Pratt, one of two spinster sisters who run a"
"giant, clad in armour, and the chalice, a beautiful bowl of red gold and rubies. The story was adapted, following the original closely, for television by the BBC, the first of eight Campion stories starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as Lugg and Gordon Jackson as Professor Cairey. Originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes, the original UK air date was 22 January 1989. The series was shown in the United States by PBS. Look to the Lady Look to the Lady is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in January 1931, in the United Kingdom by"
"roles in standalone miniseries' and television films. Her more prolific work includes the drama series' ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" (2008-2011), ""Last Tango in Halifax"" (2012-2016) and ""Happy Valley"" (2014, 2016-). Lancashire has appeared in the feature films ""And When Did You Last See Your Father?"" and ""Dad's Army"" and has returned to West End Theatre several times since her 1990 stint in ""Blood Brothers"". Her combined acting credits have earned Lancashire a number of awards and nominations over a career spanning four decades and a prominent status within the British Television Industry of the 21st century. Lancashire was appointed Officer"
"in series 2 and series 4 she appears in one episode. Although they appear in almost every episode, the actors playing the Timmins (Edmund, Frank and Ethel) and Arless (Lizzie, Archie and Sally) children as well as Sydney Dowland are not credited as main cast members. Interior scenes were shot in a warehouse on Beeches Industrial Estate, in Yate, South Gloucestershire. The villages of Lark Rise and Candleford were both created from scratch on farms in Box and Neston Park, near Corsham in Wiltshire. According to the BBC planning application, Hatt Farm in Box was used because of its proximity"
"Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) DI Alexandra ""Alex"" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, ""Ashes to Ashes"". The character is portrayed by Keeley Hawes and as a child by Lucy Cole. The character of Alex Drake is the main protagonist of ""Ashes to Ashes"", the sequel to the 2006 series ""Life on Mars"", which followed the story of Sam Tyler (John Simm) who wakes in 1973 after being hit by a car in 2005. ""Ashes to Ashes"" follows the similar storyline of Alex Drake who after being shot in 2008 awakes in 1981. The"
"John Dagleish John Dagleish is a British actor known for his work in theatre. Renowend London mould maker to the stars, Simon Collins, introduced John to the world with the infamous performance, in 1993, of ‘Love is all around’-Wet Wet Wet. In 2008 to 2011, John Dagleish played Alf Arless in the ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" series on BBC. In 2014, he played Ray Davies as part of the original cast of ""Sunny Afternoon"" at Hampstead Theatre. The production transferred to the West End in October 2014, where Dagleish won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical"
"his results"". In 2004, he starred as Lord Darlington alongside Scarlett Johansson in ""A Good Woman"", based on ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" by Oscar Wilde, shot on location in Italy. In the same year, Campbell Moore played the part of Hugh Stanbury in Andrew Davies' BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novel ""He Knew He Was Right"". In 2005, he starred as Edward VIII alongside Joely Richardson as Wallis Simpson in the British television drama ""Wallis & Edward"". In 2008, he starred in one episode of the television series ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" as headteacher Mr James Delafield, co-starring alongside Julia Sawalha,"
"adaptation of British author Flora Thompson’s ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", tracks from which were released as an album in 1980. The band was probably at the height of its mainstream profile at this point, getting its own BBC ""Arena"" documentary that explored their work. While Hutchings was more interested in pursuing theatrical possibilities, many members of the band wanted to be a touring and recording band and, despite critical acclaim, this line-up split. Tams, Taylor and Gregory went on to form the nucleus of Home Service. Live material from this period has been released in ""Songs from the Shows"" (1997"
"of the Glen"", ""Last of the Summer Wine"", ""Are You Being Served?"", ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", the Irish comedic soap opera ""Ballykissangel"", and (in 2010), the British serial drama ""Touching Evil"". WYCC and WTTW show a similar number of scripted British programmes, with both airing ""Antiques Roadshow"" and ""Masterpiece"", though at different air dates. WYCC has aired the BBC One programme ""Lark Rise to Candleford"" (which began in the UK in 2008) since 2009; and ""Midsomer Murders"" (which first aired in the UK in 1997) in November 2010. Mystery series presented on the station expanded in 2013 and 2014 to"
"Log Lady Margaret Lanterman (), better known as the Log Lady, is a character in the television series ""Twin Peaks"" (1990–1991), created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. She is played by Catherine E. Coulson and appeared in both seasons of the show, the prequel film """", and the 2017 revival series. The Log Lady is a fixture in the town of Twin Peaks by the time of Laura Palmer's murder, and most residents in the town regard her as crazy. This is mainly due to her habit of always carrying a small log in her arms, with which she"
"9 June 1983 general election, the 21 November 1983 damage to the Blue Peter Garden, and (in flashback), the 2 June 1953 coronation of the Queen. The series tells the story of Alex Drake (played by Keeley Hawes), a police officer in service with the London Metropolitan Police, who is shot in 2008 by a man called Arthur Layton and inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981. The first episode of the series reveals that, in the present day, Drake has been studying records of the events seen in the series ""Life on Mars"" through reports made by Sam Tyler (John Simm)"
"Mark Lawson in August 2007 that the inspiration for the series was an embarrassing evening when he took a girlfriend to meet his parents. They asked her awkward questions and he wondered how they would react if he invited a famous person to his home. Ashwin and Madhuri are exaggerated versions of his own parents. The show's UK debut was on 12 November 2001 on BBC Two. It was produced by Hat Trick Productions and Pariah Television. Seven series of the programme have aired on BBC Two (and latterly on BBC One), with the seventh shown in 2006. In an"
"series were released on Universal Pictures' Playback imprint in the UK on 17 May 2004. Series 3 and 4 remain unreleased. Three Up, Two Down Three Up, Two Down is a British sitcom starring Michael Elphick and Angela Thorne that ran from 1985 to 1989. It was written by Richard Ommanney. Nick and Angie have just had a baby, and to help them financially they decide to rent out the basement. Both Nick's father, Sam Tyler, and Angie's mother, Daphne Trenchard, want the basement apartment and the only solution is to share. Sam is a Cockney, while Daphne is Cheltenham-bred"
"harvest for ""Lark Rise"" and the first hunt meet of the new year, a winter's day in January, for ""Candleford"". For both plays he drew on Thompson's own introductions to set the scene and, movingly, her reflections on the fates of her characters from the perspective of the future – a future in which many of the boys just depicted had died in war – as a coda. As the plays ended the audience, suddenly torn from their participation in the re-created world, recognised the value of a way of life, close to the land and countryside, that they could"
"includes the following special features:- In 2005, the series was revived for BBC Radio, adapted by Sue Rodwell, with David Calder as George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford, and Charlie Brooks as Mary Dixon: A second series followed in 2006, with Hamish Clark replacing Tennant owing to the latter's ""Doctor Who"" recording commitments: ""The Black and Blue Lamp"" by Arthur Ellis was screened in the BBC2 ""Screenplay"" series of drama plays on 7 September 1988. In the play – which begins with a montage of key scenes from ""The Blue Lamp"" – Tom Riley (Sean Chapman) and PC Hughes"